Auguste Lumière Movies

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

Panorama of a mountainside railroad and tunnel.

Sheep pass through a gate and enter a courtyard; a man counts them in passing.

A cockfight.

A wedding party leave church in this Lumière brothers' short film.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

Firefighters at the scene lay out hoses and prepare to fight a blaze.

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground,...

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

Motor cars of different models, drivers, passengers and observers, all filmed from the starting line of the Paris-Meulan race.

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...